tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-317696422012-01-24T07:04:51.145-08:00Welcome to The Eleven. Where most music lists go to only ten...here, we do them one better...we go to ELEVEN!J. Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17990473289026908057noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31769642.post-1162933024585658072006-11-07T12:56:00.000-08:002006-11-07T12:57:04.596-08:00

Check out my other site for the list...http://goodbadunknown.blogspot.com/

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Check on the list at my other site...http://goodbadunknown.blogspot.com/

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To see this list...view my other site....http://goodbadunknown.blogspot.com/

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In the 90s, alternative music was everywhere. So college radio had to dig deep to go reeeeally alternative. If you listened to your local college radio station (which is very unlikely) or you had a neighbor that worked at a college radio station (more likely) you probably heard Cibo Matto blasting from their speakers. When they came out...they were pegged as the female Japanese Beastie Boys.

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I've been waiting to see what list will sitr the most angst from my readers. So far Bob Dylan has sparked the most ire...while at the same time, gathering many supporters. But that was an easy one to predict since the guy has over 500 songs. If I had to guess, I think I would have to predict that my next list will at least have the most passionate criticism about how little I know about music.

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When I first heard Primus, I was only 17, a freshman in college and totally blown away hearing this guy wail on a bass guitar like it was a wicked step-child. I was hanging out with some upper classmen (you know the guys who used to have the good weed?) I said "these guys are really cool." They laughed, mocking me in only a way that a freshman gets mocked..."No," they replied..."They suck."

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Cover songs are like musical crack. No matter who the group is and no matter who they are covering...you're always curious..."Nirvana covered Terry Jacks' Seasons in the Sun? ...I have to hear it!" "Pat Boone covered Sweet Child O' Mine? Turn it up!" Why does this turn us on? Why do we feel the need to download Travis covering Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time?" I think it ties into

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You ever had a friend who pushed one of his favorite bands on you over and over? And for years, you kept giving this "supposed" genius band second chance after second chance...yet, everytime you listened to them, they still underwhelmed you. And you would just get mad at yourself for thinking you could actually enjoy this crap?Then...all of a sudden, one day you went...holy moly, I really like

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For the past 15 years, men wearing Spandex tights and sporting butt-length crimped hair was a comical piece of the L.A.'s ugly 80s music scene. Outside of Halloween, this look was kept in the closet or out in the open in West Hollywood...take your pick. But then in 2003...in came the Darkness. With a voice of a valkyrie from heaven and/or hell, lead singer Justin Hawkins adorned the 80s-style

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This week Sting released an album of lute music. Yes, freaking 16th-century LUTE music!!! In what realm of reality does Sting this is a more crucial musical endeavor than a Police reunion? I mean seriously, when I first read this, I thought it was a joke. Nope...I guess Sting used up too many brain cells having sex. So, for now we wait...until then...Here are the 11 Most Desired Re-Unions:1.

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When I was 12 I saw the movie European Vacation. Besides wanting to go to Europe to experience a beer and sausage festival just like Rusty did, I became intrigued by the theme song..."Holiday Road." When I found out that it was sung by Lindsey Buckingham, I was very confused...that song was sung by a woman? Of course, not realizing that Mr. Buckingham was really a man had to be in fault with my

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Yes, believe it. Beck has recorded over 11 albums in his career, allowing me to do the ever popular album ranking. Why haveI devoted three lists this week to Beck? Am I that Beck crazy? Not really, there wasn't much else to focus on this week. Doing a top 11 for the Dears, Sean Lennon, or The Killers is a bit pointless at this stage of their careers. I wanted to do a Sparklehorse list but I kept

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Okay, I'm clearing out my inbox for all the hatemail. There's sure to be a tiny bit from attempting this one. I'm still getting emails from my best Dylan songs and that was over a month ago. Some people just have no lives...I mean, not counting me, of course. Like a primetime TV show after ridiculing the Christian right, I'm awaiting your attack...so begin when ready!The 11 Best Beck Songs:1.

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Fifteen years later, Beck has weathered the storm and grown better with age. His newest album promises to be as unique and textured as any release in his arsenal. While digesting it, let's reflect on an aspect of Beck's explansive catalogue that sometimes goes overlooked...his B-sides. With the strength of some of these songs, one has to wonder how many other unreleased songs the guy must be

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Where do great song writers go when their careers are over? They make soundtracks to knock-off animation movies for kids. This week saw the release of the Open Season soundtrack, featuring new music by Paul Westerberg. From Cameron Crowe to Ashton Kutcher. It's like walking into a Burger King one day and seeing Bill Clinton working the fry machine. Of course, I'm not sure which is sadder.Here are

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This week Tori Amos released a 100,000 song box set, filled with hits, alternative mixes, b-sides, covers, remixes, outtakes, demos, and a couple college football fight songs. To top it all off, the box set comes packaged in a full-size baby grand piano. And if that wasn't all...if you act now, Tori will come to your house and perform every song on the box set. (Okay, I made up that last part)

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Alright, I'm going to come out and say it...Live albums suck. Every time one of my favorite bands puts out a live album, I get excited with anticiapation. I run out to the store the day it comes out and buy it. Pop it in my CD player ten seconds later and I'm completely disappointed. Why? They are the exact same songs I love when they were recorded in a studio. Well, the more I thought

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What more indie rock than recording in a barn? How about recording with mother f**in' CC Deville from Poison? Yeah, I kid you not. My Morning Jacket recorded with CC Deville for their masterful EP, Chocolate and Ice. They party with Cameron Crowe...they have beards. Is there nothing about this band that doesn't rock? Their new album is a double disc live concert that is supposed to be

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I worked in college radio when Shadow's first CD (Entroducing...) came out. The guy who ran the Sunday School (our day of pure hip-hop programming) said it was one of the best CDs he had ever heard. I was shocked...how could a DJ make a good CD, isn't he just mixing up other people's music? The programmer looked at me and said, "Exactly!" Well, I didn't get it until I listened. DJ Shadow was part

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Happy New Year!1. Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman)2. Lou Reed (The Velvet Underground)3. The Beastie Boys (Adam Yauch, Michael Diamond, Adam Horowitz)4. Billy Joel5. Joey Ramone (Jeffrey Hymen)6. Gene Simmons (Chaim Weitz)7. Art Garfunkel8. Perry Farrell (Peretz Bernstein) - Jane's Addiction, Porno For Pyros9. Geddy Lee (Gary Lee)10. Red Hot Chili Peppers (Anthony Keidis, Hillel

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When Electronic came out, I was dating a girl who loved New Order. Well, I did, too. That's pretty much why I was dating her. There wasn't much more to relationships in high school. But she hated Electronic, she saw the band as a sell-out. So, naturally, I hated them, too. Then we broke up. And a few months later, I started dating a girl who liked both New Order

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It's rare when the record labels get it right. Or are at least close to perfect. This week saw the release of Jane's Addiction Greatest Hits. Oddly, (the original line-up) Jane's Addiction had a mere 3 hits - Stop!, Been Caught Stealin', and Jane Says. So instead of padding the disc with other forced and unplayed singles (Ex: So What!), the label smartly went in and grabbed some of the most

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Yes, that's right, I'm blogging about Everclear. And believe it or not, there was a time when they didn't suck. I'm serious. It was a brief moment in time...but there was a time. I swear. Sure, lead singer, Art was about 50 years old....sure, they lied about where they were from...Seatlle, LA, San Diego...sure, they sounded like a knock-off of every grunge band that came before them...but you

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Not since the Sex Pistols has a band met stardom with a "middle finger in the face" break-up. It was kind of like the opening scene in Cliffhanger when Stallone drops the girl to her death. Right when you get into the movie, it goes in an entirely different direction. Just like ATDI, who broke up right as they finally received mainstream success they deserved. The members went onto form two

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They were better than anyone gives them credit for. Hiding in the shadows of Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Alice in Chains...were Seattle's most talented...a little band known as Soundgarden. "Black Hole Sun" made them popular for the wrong reasons. And hence, they never received the true credit they deserved. Putting out 3 of the 50 best albums of the decade in Badmotorfinger, Down The Upside, and

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This week saw the release of Audioslave's third album. Though amazing that this side-project/supergroup (conprised of Rage Against The Machine and Soundgarden) would have made it through 3 albums...what's more amazing, is that in a mere 3 years the band has managed to record more original songs that Rage Against The Machine recorded in their entire 10 year career. (RATM's 4th album was all

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Indie Rock may serve as the last arena of good music. Uninhibited by money and fame, it's just a bunch of musicians trying to make good music. And the results tend to me far more satisfactory than their major label counterparts.Here are the 11 Hottest Indie Rock Albums Coming Out in Fall 2006:1. TV On the Radio - Cookie Mountain (9/12) - Already out in the UK, it's being touted as the album of

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After watching the MTV loser awards this past week, nothing came across more pathetic and in a sadder state of affairs than mainstream hip-hop. Can anyone even understand what the hell rappers are saying anymore? At least when Eazy-E was jackin' bitches and slappin' hoes, I could understand the words coming out of his mouth. But there may be a light at the end of the tunnel with one of these

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Why is pop so terrible, yet, it's the music everyone buys. Do people actually still listen to their Backstreet Boys and Nsync records? Does anyone remember that Mandy Moore even had a singing career at one time? Pop can be good at times...but mostly it's a canker sore that needs to be eliminated...and I'm the man who needs to do it. With the good and the bad...it all has had it's day and now

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What's alternative about music that's mainstream? Nothing...but what else are we going to call that genre?The 11 Hottest Alternative Rock Albums Coming Out in Fall 20061. The Killers - Sam's Town (10/3) - Vegas' sexiest mormons try to avoid the sophomore slump by betting on black. (Quality Potential: 50%)2. Beck - The Information (10/3) - Has there ever been a bad Beck album? (Quality

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We've just hit September...and you know what that means? It's the last stretch for albums by big artists to hit the streets before the holiday buying season. For the next few days, I will take a look forward at what we have to expect by looking at hip-hop, alternative, indie rock, pop, and classic rock.Kicking it off, here are the 11 Hottest Classic Rock Albums:1. Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man

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Bob Dylan is a unique artist in a thousand different ways. But what I find especially intriguing about him is that he has lived long enough to pass into a stage of his career that very few muscians ever reach. The retrospective stage. For most of Dylan's career, his songs were comments on life and its eccentricities...but now, weathering 60 years of trials and tribulations, his songs have

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No one has had a career like Bob Dylan. The guy has 3 Greatest Hits collections all comprised of different songs (and one of them is a double album!). Some bands are barely lucky enough just to get to release 3 albums in their entire career, let alone build an archive of over 60 hits. So how do you slim down a list of over 500 songs to 11? Very carefully. I have decided to split Dylan's career

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We are in the midst of greatness. There will never be another artist like Bob Dylan. Just as there will never be another Woody Allen or another J.D. Salinger. So the release of new Dylan album is an event unto itself. To celebrate, the next 3 days will be dedicated to Dylan. Today we will rank the 11 Best Dylan albums of all time. Tomorrow will be the 11 best songs of his career (prior to

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The internet is God. Bow down and kneel before its power. Why? Sit and I will tell you the story, boys and girls.Years ago, the Black Crowes cut an album for their 3rd release "Amorica." The label hated the songs and scrapped the album. The Crowes wrote some new songs and recorded others for what would be the official release. These were known as the "Tall Sessions." Raw and wicked, they

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They say music repeats every 15 years. Well, in 1991, there was a label named Subpop and a band called Nirvana. Now in 2006...we have Saddle Creek posed to make the same historical leap. Most likely it will come for label darlings, Bright Eyes...but that won't happen until next summer. But this week, Cursive, also on Saddle Creek released one of the most complex albums of the year, Happy

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It's rare that a band that is so far ahead of the game that they catch up to the rest of the genre by coming up from the past. Outkast's last few releases have ventured into the future with unique and groundbreaking song experiments, where they have found incredible success. But what do you do when you've gone so far forward that the rest of the world still hasn't caught up with you? Well,

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Scrap booking is the "in" thing right. It's taking images and items that we have collected in our lives and slathering them up with Elmer's glue and sticking them into a book. By placing hundreds of items on page and adding shinny colorful stickers we can look back at our mundane lives through revisionist goggles. "Wow, wasn't Thanksgiving 1997 fun? I have no idea what happened that year but

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This week saw the release of the last Sex Pistols material to come to CD in the form of the infamous Spunk bootleg. For most bands this would be a mere footnote but for this band that recorded probably not more than 22 songs in their entire career, this is momumental. Most of the song are pre-Bullocks demos in which Malcolm McClaren claims to actually be better than the stuff that actually

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Part 2 from yesterday's post, I'll further delve into the career of the Jane's Addiction members since their break-up in 1991. Yes, they reunited in 2003 but let's just forget about that for the time being. Jane's Addiction was like that elusive "cool" group of friends from high school that everyone liked and always seemed to be at the cool parties. Everytime you hung out with them you had the

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Back in the late 80s people listened to bands like the Pixies, Minor Threat, and Jane's Addiction to escape the bland ilk of mainstream radio. Complex song structures combined with thought-provoking lyrics created a world more than they created a jingle that would get stuck in your head. Like Pink Floyd before them, when you listened to a Jane's Addiction album, you were transported to another

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If you haven't read my other blog Good, Bad, and Unknown, check it out. The (http://goodbadunknown.blogspot.com/)This past week, Rhino came with part two in their Cure deluxe edition releases. It featured double CDs of The Top, Kiss Me, Head on the Door, and the very seldom mentioned Blue Sunshine. Thought most of the double CDs are filled with half-hearted demos really aimed at fanatic fans,

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